People are basically good. Given a good start in life, they will do the right thing. True or false?

When it comes to psychology, most people agree that it's a mix of nature and nurture, that how we turn out is a mix of the parts of us that make us individuals and the people and events that figure into how we are raised. In other words, people start out all along the curve of ';good'; and ';bad'; and are then influenced by the events of their life, which leads to them landing wherever they land on the scale. That's what makes us all different people with different standards and morals.People are basically good. Given a good start in life, they will do the right thing. True or false?
Most psychologists would say that we all start off life with a ';blank slate'; (or tabula rasa, if you will, in Latin). And our social experiences, including parenting along with any predetermined genetic determinants will determine if we become ';bad'; or ';good'; as you say. In most peoples cases I would say it is more a product of their environment. If all they see and experience is ';bad'; then they too are likely to become ';bad.';People are basically good. Given a good start in life, they will do the right thing. True or false?
FALSE!!! so if your mother was a crack whore and she gave birth to you and you were addicted to speed when you came out, how is that a good life... no one to help you no REAL parents. thats a pretty f@%26amp;$*d up life
true


it is all in the upbringing of the children


they are a reflection of the parents
Yes. Definitely true.





But that shouldn't stop people who didin't get the same chance to also do right and be good.
Neither. Because I can count higher than two, I can imagine more outcomes:





People given a good start in life will:





Do the right thing OR


Do the wrong thing OR


Do both OR


Do neither (any action which is neither right nor wrong)





Likewise, people given a bad start in life will do the same things.





Likewise, people given neither a good or bad start in life will do the same things.





Likewise, people given BOTH a good and a bad start in life will do the same things.





In addition, you have to consider an analysis of what people would do given ';starts'; in life which they consider good, bad, or neither, but whose concepts of those qualities are different than your own.





Trying to limit things as complicated as human behaviour and human ethics to only two possibilities is naive.
False, we are prone to be addicted to pleasure so we could do anything to satisfy our pleasurable activities.
People are basically animals. Given a good start in life, they will outrun you.


Competition is what keeps us from learning how to live together.


In other words, people are basically good, but their systems force them to be competitive, which makes them do bad things, and build bad systems which exploit the same resources they need to live.


People are basically good at competiting. Morality is just another tool for groups to use to exploit resources or other people.
Until they are placed in a bad situation
I think it all depends on the person. But it has alot to do with your mother and father
yes- we'd either all be dead or enslaved otherwise.
False.





People do what rewards them for their behavior. Good people generally have had good examples growing up. Good behavior was rewarded, until the point that good behavior was a habit.





It can be proven that the ';better nature'; of humanity that was referred to so heavily in the 50s and 60s by pop psychologists does not exist.
I am so sorry... but the answer is false. I have seen both good and evil and of one thing I am certain. Although each of us have done something evil then regretted it there are some that are just plain evil from the day they were born. Just like puppies whan they are born there is always the mean one who hurts the other puppies to suck its mothers breast for milk, then later bites every visitor in its den. There is a difference between people who are evil at certain times because their emotions were not under control. Yet there are others who plot to harm anyone who stands in their way and are actually proud of it. I hope that in your lifetime you never meet such a person. Evil is such a strong force that at times it covets over benevolence and destroys it. The only way to beat it is to run from it and surround yourself with people who although are not perfect have a good heart.
Read Lord of the Flies...great book on the goodness and savagery of mankind
We are all born sinners. Given thecorrect up bringing people will do the right thing.
I think true....but having morals will help them do the right thing anyway.
false no matter how well there raised they r there very on person like it or not
False. No, I would love to believe that all people are just good. But this is not true. Some people are born with problems and it wouldn't matter where they was raised or how much love they received. Of course this helps to mold a person. But, I still think their is just some bad apples. No matter what anyone did or trys to do these people are just Born Bad. I think it has to do with their Brain and they way it works. I feel like the part that makes them feel sorry or sad for something or someone is messed up when they are Born or gets messed up alone the way somewhere. So in turn you have a person that has no Emotions, No Feeling. Then when you mix Horamones with no emotions, no feelings, you get something like wild animals.Wild Animals know how to breed But, they will rip you apart given the chance. So I think some people are just Born this way. It's a very Scary thought to!